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Dotards Anonymous Feb 10, 2023

Dan Gillmor Feb 10, 2023

Latest deep dive into Twitter's increasingly rancid corporate culture, by @zoeschiffer and @caseynewton https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer

Yet as long as top journalists and others continue to pour their work into an increasingly rancid platform, Musk has a real chance of coming out ahead.

If people who keep supporting the birdsite had any sense of self-interest beyond right now, they'd be planning their departure. Almost no sign of that, sadly.

Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count

Inside Twitter 2.0, turmoil leaves employees stretched to the max

Platformer

Dotards Anonymous Feb 9, 2023

#npr
What’s it going to take to get Mary Louise Kelly of #NPR to migrate to Mastodon and show her support for a platform that appreciates #journalists ?

#DitchTheBird

Dotards Anonymous Feb 6, 2023

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Thomas Zimmer Feb 3, 2023

What would you say if the nation’s leading newspaper focused on how the illiberal leader of this hypothetical German state who was banning Jewish voices and was ruthlessly pursuing his authoritarian agenda was, in fact, taking on the “establishment” and successfully building “his brand”? 8/

Dotards Anonymous Feb 4, 2023

Scott Shapiro Feb 4, 2023

Russian Spy Balloon

Dotards Anonymous Feb 4, 2023

Quantum Feb 4, 2023

WTF #Germany? You promised to deliver #Leopard 2 with the standard barrel of 120 mm to #Ukraine. But now you send Leopard 1 with the deviant barrel of 105 mm. There are barely any rounds of that size available. So what is your plan? Send tanks without ammunition? How could i have expected any different from Scholzing.
https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-germany-approves-export-of-leopard-1-tanks/a-64599933

Ukraine updates: Germany approves export of Leopard 1 tanks

The German government has approved deliveries of Leopard 1 battle tanks to Ukraine. Meanwhile, IOC condemns Ukraine's Olympic boycott threat. DW has the latest.

Deutsche Welle

Dotards Anonymous Jan 25, 2023

Unattributed 👤 ☑Jan 25, 2023

Based on the latest stats - it looks like we have a #TwitterMigration wave / surge happening again... Up to 1000 new accounts in the last hour (from previous ~400/hr for the last few weeks). #TwitterExodus #riptwitter

Link to original post: https://mastodon.social/@mastodonuserc[email protected]/109746903446534537

Dotards Anonymous Jan 14, 2023

Stock Maniuplator Musk to face the music.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/musk-on-trial-for-funding-secured-tweet-experts-predict-hes-going-to-lose/

#Musk

Musk on trial for “funding secured” tweet—experts predict he’s going to lose

Musk faces tough trial as judge already ruled his tweets were false and reckless.

Ars Technica

Dotards Anonymous Jan 11, 2023

Tom Delargy Jan 11, 2023

The way to fix the problem posed by #ElonMusk owning 100% of shares in birdsite is to divest it of its ownership of the franchise for political debate. Mastodon has to work hard to supplant it. We need politicians and journalists to spend much more time here than they do there. Once we succeed in that the other site simply implodes. This must be our ambition. It has to be. #TwitterMigration

Dotards Anonymous Jan 10, 2023

A Guy Named Brian (he/him)Jan 10, 2023

I know most of us here have largely taken this advice already, but it might still be a good one to share: “So what do you do if you don’t want to fund Musk’s far-right craziness? Leave Twitter, for one. While the vast majority of Twitter users don’t pay for it … all users help the service sell ads—by creating content and generating user and engagement numbers that Musk can pitch to advertisers.” #TwitterMigration #MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #ElectricVehicles
https://progressive.org/op-eds/its-time-dump-twitter-and-elon-musk-mirken-220106/

It’s Time to Dump Twitter (and Elon Musk)

Musk’s COVID-19 disinformation campaign is as worrisome as his increasingly overt embrace of the most dangerous fringes of the far right.

Progressive.org

Dotards Anonymous Jan 6, 2023

emptywheel Jan 6, 2023

SDNY Calls DOJ's Definition of the Espionage Act an "Academic Interest"

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/01/06/sdny-calls-dojs-definition-of-the-espionage-act-an-academic-interest/

SDNY Calls DOJ's Definition of the Espionage Act an "Academic Interest" - emptywheel

SDNY says that it's merely academic to a journalist whether the government might prosecute her under the Espionage Act for sharing already published information.

emptywheel